Awareness created by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto will always thwart anti-democracy forces, says Bilawal

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the role and contribution of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah is vast and exemplary, and hence despite the fact that his martyrdom dates back to April 4, 1979, he is alive in the hearts and minds of the masses. Even the anger of the masses at his cold blooded judicial assassination is as same and high as it was on his day of martyrdom.

In his message on the 40th Yaum-e Shahadat of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan, Bilawal paid rich tribute to him and said that on the one hand the founder of Pakistan changed the course of the history, and on the other the Quaid-e-Awam, Bhutto, paved a way forward for a democratic revolution and created immense awareness about democracy and its blessings, due to which chauvinist, anti-democracy and radical forces would always find it difficult to impose their anti-democratic agenda or rule on the country.

Besides, there are countless voices for democracy and rule of the people though they are victimised and vandalised time and again.

The PPP chairman said Bhutto’s immense contributions on the forefront of politics, diplomatic, economic and international affairs were praiseworthy and thought-provoking. He said that since Bhutto always believed in consensus, he gave the unanimously approved Constitution of 1973, which was indeed a manifestation of real consensus.

The motive behind his gigantic efforts for the Pakistan-China friendship lay in that very characteristic of his inspiring personality, and the Sino-Pakistan relations had turned into a practical aspect of one body and two souls, he said, adding that the first Islamic summit had opened venues for Pakistan for leading the entire Muslim Ummah.

Bilawal said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had on the one hand made the country’s defence invincible, and on the other he had introduced people-friendly policies from which the working classes benefitted a lot and thus millions of farmers and growers that were deprived of their land attained land, people got jobs and millions of Pakistani workers flooded the Gulf countries with which Pakistan earned tremendous foreign exchange and the people thus acquired prosperity.

One can easily imagine the level of prosperity from just one point and that was the Karachi international Airport, the busiest one in Asia in his time, he said.

Bilawal said that even today we are waiting to see justice is dispensed because Bhutto was judicially assassinated. A reference that was signed by former president Asif Ali Zardari was still being treated with slackness in the corridors of the country’s apex court and despite repeated reminders and demands, justice was still not yet done, he remarked.

He said that the law of necessity and judicial disparity was the mother of injustice. Bilawal said the present situation in the country called for the supremacy of parliament and efforts were required to take the respect of law and the constitution ahead because it was all that revolved around the ideology of Bhutto.